oikos Student Award

oikos Student Award – Sustainable Campus

Winner 2008: BioDiesel, Crete

In the 'Sustainable Campus' track, the prize goes to ‘Daedalus’, the world’s "first energy-autonomous biodiesel unit" that uses solar energy to process waste household oil into BioDiesel. A team of engineering students around Ioannis Sarantopoulos has come up with the idea, developed and installed the technology and set up a collection system for the household oil at Crete University in Greece. Daedalus delivers energy to the university since August 2008, an achievement that has not only been embraced by the University staff, but might also lead Ioannis to start his own biodiesel company.





Call for Proposal

Universities can be lighthouses of sustainability by integrating it into their own operations. Often the initiatives for making campus life and work more sustainable comes from student groups that…

 

  • Improve energy efficiency or promote renewable energy on your campus;
  • Reduce waste and establish recycling programmes;
  • Set up a sustainable mobility system to and on your campus;
  • Promote organic and fair-trade food in your university cafeteria and restaurant;
  • Change the behaviour of student and faculty members towards sustainability;
  • Enable students to live sustainable on and off campus;
  • Inspire other students to take initiative towards sustainability.

oikos – students for sustainable economics and management